Cyber Threats and Russian Information and Electronic Warfare

I have been a well received regular speaker at GovSec/FOSE conventions over the years. Topics included: "The Threat of State Sponsored Terrorism" (2008); "Brave New World of the 5 Day Russo-Georgia War: Where Cyber and Military Might Combined for War Fighting Advantage" (2009); "The New Threat Matrix: Cyber Espionage and Criminal Hacking" (2010). In 2011, Paul led a panel on "The Arab Spring; Implications for America and the Middle East and the impact of social media," and provided the keynote at that year's FOSE convention, "Operation Trident BreACH, the FBI's international cybercrime takedown." In addition, he was Chair and Organizer for the Joint Cybersecurity and Secure Enterprise Mobility Conference & Expo held December 8-9, 2011 at the Washington Convention Center, where the Keynote Presentation was made by Shawn Henry, Executive Assistant Director, Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and where Paul moderated panels: The New Frontier: Cyber Attack Vectors" and "Emerging Threats from the UAB Spam Data Mine" (Dec. 8) and "Cybersecurity in Action: Case Studies" (Dec. 9). He was a presenter at the Suits and Spooks conference in San Diego 2013 on malware used against the Georgian political opposition, and on Russian information warfare: a new form of active measures in Washington, DC 2014 and London 2015. In January 2015 he presented on Russian Information Warfare at the Cyber Security Institute. Keynote address at BSidesCharm 2016 on Hybrid War: Russian Information and Electronic Warfare

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